Technical Description. (t.b.d.)

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Description based on Reid (1980).

The cap of Amanita murina is campanulate to expanded, with an obtuse umbo, mouse-colored, with a striate margin.

The gills are free, crowded, white or slightly rose-tinted.

The stem is thin, white, subfibrillose, with a skirt-like ring according to the original description (according to Reid's interpretation, the ring is barely free, easily comes away on the fingers, and is absent in dried material). Volva membranous and limbate, white on the outside (Reid says gray on inner surface). 

Combining Reid's measurements of spores of the lectotype, we get 7.0 - 9.0 (-10.0) x 6.2 - 8.0 µm and are globose to subglobose, rarely ellipsoid and amyloid.

The species was originally described from the state of Queensland on sandy soil (Reid 1980). Cleland and Cheel report the species from new south Wales. All material cited by Wood (1997) was from new south Wales and occurred in sclerophyll forest.-- R. E. Tulloss

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